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We are comfortable with formulas, but the best happens when the formula doesn't work.

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Alber Elbaz
Age: 59 †
Born: 1961
Born: June 12
Died: 2021
Died: April 24
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Many, many times I find that whatever is looking good on the screen doesn't always look or feel good on the body. So who do we design for - do we design for the screen, or do we design for women?
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All I want to do is make people beautiful.
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Sometimes you don't really need armor to feel protected. Sometimes maybe you need just a chiffon dress to hug you.
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Everybody's talking about the new democratic world and whether high fashion is relevant. But without high there is no low. I don't like to intellectualize. I've always said fashion is like roast chicken: You don't have to think about it to know it's delicious.
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The problem with couture is not designers it's what happens when the couturier will no longer be there.
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Some days I feel like a piano: kind of short, always in black & white, always expected to produce music.
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If it’s not edible, it’s not food. If it’s not wearable, it’s not fashion.
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Fashion is like a fruit, you couldn't eat it a day before and you can't eat it a day after it's just about today
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I think that if you want to pass emotion, you have to write a letter. Emotions do not pass in SMS or in e-mail.
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Fashion doesn't look good only on models, it can look good on different people of different ages and different body shapes.
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If I were a buyer today in one of the American department stores, I would go with extremes-the most beautiful, the more expensive, the more eccentric. I would take risks. The worst thing would be to buy only the little black dress. You know why? Because everyone has it already. I would go with a purple dress, something different
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The big room or big suite doesn't mean a lot to me. It is what the people do or don't do that matters.
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I don’t take drugs because if I did I’d love them–I’d be a junkie. And because I’m Jewish, I’d probably be a dealer, too.
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I don't think that you can write music if you don't know how to play an instrument. You have to know the basics, then you can go forward.
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I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.
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I work on fittings, mostly. You know, I sketch less and less in my work. I sketch for the show sometimes, but then it becomes more conceptual. But when I don't sketch, it becomes more pragmatic.
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Almost every collection I do has 200 different references. I don't have two of the same coat, two of the same dress. I have it in one color, in one fabric. I've tried to adapt the culture of couture, and the know-how and the heritage, but I try to update it.
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There is nothing scarier than being ‘the designer of the moment,’ because the moment ends.
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If you take something out of the freezer, it's cold, but what happens when it melts? It's a cool party, a cool person, a cool collection. What does that mean? I'm more interested in things that are uncool, things that have a certain individuality, a certain soul, a certain longevity, emotion, fragility.
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All I want is beautiful. I mean, I like grey hair, I love wrinkles. But this is me.
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